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Spencer's marriage was troubled from the beginning. Sixteen months after the wedding, Spencer confessed to London's Daily Mail that he had had an affair with Tatler magazine cartoonist Sally Ann Lasson in Paris, "a second one-night stand, four years after the first." The move was intended as a pre-emptive strike against plans by News of the World to tell Lasson's account of the couple's trysts. In the midst of all this, Lockwood was battling anorexia, a condition, it appears, Spencer did not always deal with sensitively. In a widely reported incident, Spencer apparently told...
After his father's death in 1992, Spencer spoke openly in the press about his distaste for Raine, likening her redecoration of Althorp to "the wedding-cake vulgarity of a five-star hotel in Monaco." This, as well as the Lasson episode, was one of the many instances in which Spencer, like the Princess of Wales, used the media to his advantage, despite a long-expressed loathing of its intrusiveness. In fact, after university, Spencer joined the press corps, taking a job as a light-news correspondent on NBC's Today show, for which he reported directly from the wedding...
...Life and Destiny of Isak Dinesen by Frans Lasson and Clara Svendsen. Illustrated. 227 pages. Random House. $15. Hundreds of pictures of the author and dozens of her family, friends, pets, houses, manuscripts and even book jackets. What is desperately missing from this reverential literary curiosity is any sense of the vitality of its subject. Isak Dinesen's writing was mercurial, elaborate and passionate. Her life was filled with tragedy and long illness as well as with adventure. Her husband was the model for Hemingway's Francis Macomber; her great love, Denys Finch-Hatton...
...ROBERT LASSON Bechtelsville...
...most modish of the late Queen Victoria's granddaughters. Queen Marie, the daughter of Victoria's second son, the Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg und Gotha, never seemed more the perfect type of Germano-British womanhood than when she greeted with a radiant smile General Lasson, the military aide of President Doumergue who welcomed her to Paris and presented an armful of roses...